3 things tag & lush sweetie pie shower jelly

Three names I go by:
1. karen
2. nickname given by my bf..lol
3.

Three jobs I have had:
1. waitress
2. cashier
3. pharmacy technician

Three places I have lived:
1. Staten Island
2. Queens
3. Rockland County

Three favourite drinks:
1. diet pepsi
2. water
3. coffee

Three TV shows I watch:
1. one tree hill
2. gossip girl
3. the office

Three places I have been:
1. vegas
2. florida
3. ohio

Three places I would like to visit:
1. new zealand
2. philippines
3. california

Three favorite old TV shows:
1. charmed
2. saved by the bell
3. 90210 (original)

Three favorite dishes:
1. sushi-rainbow roll, yellow tail...anything i love sushi :]
2. pad thai
3. anything filipino

Three makeup/beauty products I cannot live without:
1. mac msf natural
2. eyeliner
3. moisturizer

Three things I’m looking forward to:
1. summer vaca
2. graduation...even tho its in a year and a half lol
3. seeing my bf again on friday! i miss him already!

Three people I tag:
everyone!

ALRIGHT so...i just wanted to procrastinate a little bit with that tag lol
anyway so....i had just used a lush shower jelly in my hair for the first time, so i decided i'd discuss it a bit.
i used lush's sweetie pie shower jelly. it's amazing stuff. it smells like berries and is a pretty, it's glittery, and is a pretty dark purple color. the website describes it to have a cherry scent, which i dont smell, idk maybe it's just me but i feel like it smells like fruits.

i love it so much on my skin. it lathers so well! whether you use it alone and rub it straight on your body or if you use a loofah. i always use a loofah even with my bar soaps from lush. i just feel like it lathers a lot better with one and i also have pretty dry skin so i like to use it to smooth out my skin.

but in my however....okay right off the bat in the shower..i only needed like a bit more than a pinch of the jelly. now, i have a lot of hair so for that to be enough was like..whoa. it lathered so so well! it smelt good while washing and i could see the glitter sparkling.

when i got out of the shower-i wasn't expecting the glitter to stay, obviously. but i can still smell it (so it didnt completely wash out in the shower) and i also knew my hair was going to be tangled. i didn't use a conditioner bc i wanted to see how it was in my hair on its own, i didnt even put in my daily leave in conditioner from garnier, for the sake of experimentation. it's been an hour and a half since i got out of the shower and my hair is STILL wet. usually by this time it's damp, but it's still pretty wet! which is annoying that it's taking so long to dry. BUT from the feel of what is dry..it feels soft. but it rly wasn't manageable when i got out of the shower. i usually comp my hair with a wide toothed comb when i get out of the shower. so i dont like that. but we'll see how it goes for the rest of the day....

8 things tag & ramblings

okay so i'm dique writing a paper right now with this blog entry haha...
just wanted to get a few things off my mind...

vegas was awesome! it was such a good spring break. ive been in college for almost 3 years now and ive never had that typical spring break you see people on tv have...but i finally got to experience my college spring break with the pool, sun, drinks, partying, clubbing, good friends...it was so much fun, but now it's back to my reality of a nursing student-hard ass work! lots of studying, lots of reading...basically a lot of stress...all until may! i just need to get thru the next 2 months and im golden. after this semester i can move on..hopefully (praying i dont fail)!!! anyway that break was a really good way to restart my brain cuz now im all partied out, got that out of my system and now i can focus on the work i need to complete.

alright heres the tag..that i stole from goregous http://mzfivetwooh.blogspot.com/

8 tv shows i like to watch

• glee
• one tree hill
• gossip girl
• how i met your mother
• will and grace
• i shouldn't be alive
• the office
• house

8 favorite places to eat and drink

• blockheads (best sangrias and mexican food and its cheap!)
• ihop
• taco bell
• my house if my mom/grandma cook
• banchetto feast
• olive garden
• the melting pot
• chipotle

8 things i look forward to

• summer
• going home to my puppy
• the feeling i get when i complete my work (relief and stress free!)
• my birthday
• going home every weekend from school
• seeing my boyfriend
• paychecks
• seeing my grandmother(s)

8 things happened yesterday

• bfs motorcycle got stolen
• rode in a cop car for my first time (looking for the bike, i didn't do anything wrong LOL)
• got home from vegas
• slept on a plane
• had the ill earache from the air pressure change when flying (hate it!)
• slept for hours and hours! lol
• dropped my sister off at her house
• saw my bf for the first time in over a week!

8 things i like about winter

• my birthday celebrations (january 19th, get it capricorns!)
• the sight of fresh snow
• winter clothes
• the return of mint mochas at starbucks
• warm drinks during a cold day
• christmas and family time
• snow days
• snowboarding!

8 things on my wish list

• mac dollymix blush
• mac viva glam gaga l/s
• a new car thats at least a 2000 model lol
• my paper to be magically complete
• a new ipod
• a new laptop
• unlimited starbucks
• my RN degree!

8 things i'm passionate about

• nursing
• interior design
• my boyfriend
• my family
• my education
• going green, conserving and imporving the environment
• animal rights
• homosexual rights

8 words/phrases i often use

• get it!
• giiirl
• i mean...
• i guess...
• yaaass
• faaakkk
• sheeet
• i dont get it...

8 things i've learned in the past

• walk away when u win (when gambling)
• being cute will get u in VIP and free drinks at clubs LOL
• keeping it real is better than being plastic
• get ur shit done on time!
• sterile dressings
• my earaches when flying is worse than i remember from the last time i flew
• your shit will get stolen in nyc within a blink of an eye
• how to enable/disable network connections on my laptop and disabling it when not in use will conserve your battery life

8 places i would like to go/visit/see

• the philippines
• DR
• new zeland
• europe (ALL OF EUROPE!!!)
• cali
• IMATS
• chile
• australia

8 things i currently want/need

• money
• my work to be complete
• this semester to be over
• move on to nursing 120!!!
• new snowboarding gear
• itouch
• new laptop
• my family and friends to be healthy and happy

8 people i would love to tag

• EVERYONEEE!!!!!

rimmel mascara review: glam eyes vs. sexy curves

i decided to try out new mascaras
i saw a video where michelle phan went thru a drug store
she walked by the rimmel section and mentioned
that she really liked sexy curves
i saw another video from pixiwoo
(i forgot which sister did the video, i honestly don't know
their names i think one is nik?) and she was
doing a comparison video among different
drug store mascaras...among them she said that
sexy curves was actually one of the best ones
she had picked up...so that's why i picked up
these 2 mascaras during this buy 1 get 1
rimmel sale at cvs a few months back

i wanted to review these after really giving them a shot
because sometimes i start to like things after a while
of using them, especially mascaras. i find that
they work better after they dry up a bit.

packaging
rimmel always has really cute packaging
i really like the glam eyes packaging
it's really cute with the black and pink
especially the criss cross pattern on the handle
i'm not really liking the sexy curves packaging
i think its kind of unnecessary how its so shiny
yea...thats kind of ugly

this is the wand on glam eyes
it's different from most mascaras
i know the quality isn't that great, i couldn't get my camera to focus
but if u can see, there are 4 strips of bristles as opposed to
the traditional wand where the bristles hug all around the wand
it doesn't really bother me...the only only thing is during application
u need to make sure that when u start at the root of ur lashes
u got up rolling up bc usually u can just sweep the wand
straight up with other mascaras
they are rubber bristles, i know some ppl find those
to be kind of spikey on the eyes, but i like it
being that there's 4 strips, 2 are the same, same with the other 2
2 strips are short stiff rubber bristles
and 2 are longer and more bendable

the top brush is the glam eyes.
it didn't come bent like that, that happened by accident
this is one of the cons actually. the wand is very flimsy.
it just got bent by putting it back in the tube bc its so weak.

the bottom one is obv the sexy curves.
rimmel actually took the spherical shape from that givenchy
mascara, idk wat the name is and telescopic from loreal.
only wat rimmel did was have 3 balls instead of the 1 like
wat givenchy and loreal has. they're advertisements
say that this will add 3x the volume, but i rly dont
see wat the difference is if theres 1 or 3 or even 5 bumps lol

enough rambling about packaging..here's wat it looks like on...
without mascara and liner (yuck lol)

glam eyes
not rly volumizing but it is really thickening
which i'd rather have than length (if not both)
does a really good job at separating tho

sexy curves
this is just the opposite of glam eyes
not really thickening, more lengthening

so i mean...what it really comes down to is your
own personal preference. id rather the glam eyes over
the sexy curves, just because it is lengthening, not as much
as the sexy curves but i do like that its much more thickening.

other than that..they do hold a curl (i've never had a problem
with that, but it does last). they don't flake and it lasts throughout the day.
so they're both pretty good...i wouldn't repurchase any of these.
i really like my loreal voluminous so i think im going to stick to that one
until i find a better mascara. however i don't want these to
go to waste so i do like to layer them together.

FOTD & OOTD

today i'm off of work and school.
i have no plans except a date with my research and microsoft word.
i have a 15 page paper to write. so this is actually wat i had on yesterday...



nothing special, i had class so i just threw on a pair of dark washed
boot cut jeans, a white tank top, a black cardigan.
as for accessories, just a black scarf with cream
colored designs on it and stud earrings
(i always have my fossil watch and promise ring on).
shoes had on a pair of black ballet flats from dollhouse (purchased at dsw).

i just did a simple smokey eye
using my coastal scents 88 matte palette
i used the 2nd gray down from the very last column,
the gray-brownish color somewhere below that one
and the black for my outer corner
i really just used the grayish brown to make the transition
to the black easier, then a brown just to soften up the crease area
i also almost always use pose from victoria's secret for my crease
i do this just to add depth to my eye to make them look bigger

face
revlon - color stay liquid foundation
vitoria's secret - camouflage fx concealer palette
using the 2nd color for my tired under eyes and blemishes
revlon - color stay pressed power
to set the liquid and concealer
mac - blush in prism (matte)
mac - cream color base in pearl (frost)
on the tops of my cheeks to highlight

lips
mac - l/l whirl
mac - l/s faux
mac - l/g underage

as for my hair, i don't usually wear it curled
but i just felt like it that day lol
i curled it with my 1" le angelique straightener
that straightener is retailed at $250
i found it at my local tj max for...$30!
i love that straightener!

the body shop's hemp hand protector

i'm a nursing student and as nurse or anyone in the health care field, must know that hand washing is of #1 importance when preventing illness. it's completely vital for everyone to wash your hands (better than antibacterial! don't think it's the same effectiveness people), however when working in this field, we're constantly washing our hands being that we're around sick people all the time. so you can imagine the toll all that hand washing takes on your hands?

i come from a family with a history of eczema, luckily mine stops at dry skin. so my skin is dry to begin with and then when i get into my hospital rotations it's constant hand washing. on top of that i go to school in nyc, so i don't want to be carrying around all those germs on my hands i get from holding onto those poles on the train/bus, for times like that i use my antibacterial, which is very drying being that it's main ingredient is alcohol. basically...i have really dry skin! lol

i've found the perfect hydration restoring hand cream.
it's the hemp hand protector from the body shop.

i first saw hemp seed oil used in tanning lotions back when i was in hs. i thought it was weird that a lotion would use hemp seed oil, because i always thought of hemp as marijuana like wat ppl smoke lol. but i educated myself on the effects hemp seed oil has on your skin. so hemp is actually made up of a few fatty acids, most importantly omega 3. omega 3 is known to help problematic skin related to psoriasis, dry, itchy skin, eczema. hemp seed oil works by getting deep into your skin and replenishes it with these fatty acids which rehydrates your skin, basically repairing it and apparently hemp seed oil also helps with aging signs. so yea, there's your little science lesson on hemp seed oil effects on skin lol.

i don't carry this around with me in my purse or anything. i'll just put it on at night so my skin can repair over night.

my only issue with this hand cream is this creme is the smell. it's not that serious of a smell, but it does last a long time. i can wash my hands and i'll still smell it. however, the moisture it provides my skin definitely outweighs the not so great smell.
another great thing about this cream is that, being that it's so soft and silky it smooths over your skin so efficiently that you don't even need a lot, a pea size is enough, so this product will last a while being that i'm not using so much of it. after applying some lotions i get this feeling of residue on my skin and this cream does not leave that feeling at all, it gets absorbed by the skin quickly as you rub it in and it even softens your cuticles.

let me know if any of you guys have tried this out before, i've never heard of it until i got it as a present actually, and i love it! hope i helped anyone out whos been looking for a good hand cream.

okayyyy

alright so...i dont understand how to use blogspot.
and i need a cute layout.
why is this so hard for me?
i used to do all this html crap with xanga..i think blogspot is just confusing.

help pls.